Jamshedpur, Jan. 14: Lalinder Kumar, a student of Genius Inter College, today claimed to have created a national record by reciting the periodic table of Chemistry in just 21.3 seconds.
The recorded recitation will be forwarded to Limca Book of Records, New Delhi, for the final certification.
Kumar, an I.Sc student created the record in front of a packed auditorium of SNTI in the presence of Biswaroop Roy Chowdhary, a Delhi-based memory expert, who himself holds a record of fastest memorising shuffled pack of playing cards. The record for the fastest recitation of the periodic table was held by Arun Kumar Agrawal, who had recited the table in 24.6 seconds.
Agrawal, a MSc student of Aligarh Muslim University, created the record in March last year. The periodic table of Chemistry consists of more than 100 elements. It is divided into 18 groups and each group contains more than five elements. But Kumar recited the names of the elements in periodic order and also mentioned the various 18 groups to which they belong.
Kumar was later questioned by the audience about the various groups each element belonged to, and he correctly answered it.
Director of Genius Inter College Om Prakash lauded the performance of his student. ?It is a national record and we are proud of our student. The memory enhancement classes will bring fruitful results,? he said.
Memory expert Chowdhary, who has been training students of Genius Inter College, too, confirmed that Kumar held a record. He was confident that he would find entry in the 2006 edition of Limca Book of Records.
Chowdhary said the earlier record created by Agrawal was set in his presence and he was confident that the timing of 21.3 seconds is a national record. He said memorising the periodic table has helped students in engineering competitive examination.
Kumar said though it is a difficult task, he achieved the goal with the help of technique of association and visualisation and regular practise.
?For instance, to memorise hydrogen, which is the first element of the table, I associated it with a big hydrogen balloon and imagined it to be going up in the sky. Through this technique, I was able to remember the names of the elements one after the other,? said Kumar.
